The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-10-13
FROM MURPHY IL MANTEo
SOM THINGS THAT AEiEHAPrEN.
ING IN NORTH CAROLINA.

What Has Happened in the Good Old
state Since the Chronicle Last Greeted
Its Readers.
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CHRONICLE in every section of the State
are requested to aid US in making this de-
partment an accurate record, IN brief, of
the news from Murphy to Manteo Send
us postal card whenever anything of
public interest transpires in your neigh
borhood or section of country. You will
ald US and give prominence to your Sec
ton. Send on the postal cards - EDITOR. |
49,. The Presbyterian Synod meets at
Fayetteville, October 25th.
The n. G. Methodist Conference will
meet in Fayetteville, Nov. 3Oth Bishop
J. S. Key will preside.
Mr.. J. F. Melton, of Onslow county,
raised beet that weighs II pounds, says
the New Berne Journal
Mr.. G. E. Borden succeeds Col
Grat11in as superintendent of the Navassa
Guano Works at Wilmington.
-. Mayor Hills house at Taylorsville
was burned Oct. 9th. Thought TO be the
work of an incendiary. Loss 1000.
49,. Mr.. Connell, of Warren, had his
hand so badly mangled in a gin that it had
to be amputateG = Louisburg Times.
The Durham Recorder has turned
Doctor. Its prescription for cramp collie
Is ''make tea of cotton seed and drink it :"
-. .Albemarle, Stanly county, has a
town ordinance against serenading with
'promiscuous and clamorous instru-
mentS."
-. Montgomery county has given a
contract for hnjlHiup hon
at Troy. 1t is to be OF brick, 60x40 feet,
two stories high.
Mr.. r. P. Dicks new residence at
Randleman, for convenience and architec-
turai beauty, will not be surpassed in the
State Ashboro Courier.
=. Charlotte has annulled a contract
with a water company that specified five
streams to the height of 10 feet, because it
was not complied with.
- Frank Williams. a brakeman on the
W. N. G. R. R. was killed at Hot Springs
Saturday while engaged ii coupling cars.
His body was horribly crushed and man
gled.
-. Rev. D. ?. Meacham, of Wake
county, an organizer of the Farmers
Alliance, has been addressing the farmers
of Franklin this week, and organizing
branches of the Alliance.
Tyson Il Jones' the enterprising
carriage manufacturers Of Carthage, will
have a fine display at the Atlanta EXposi-
ton. The CHRONICLE is betting all the
time on this live firm.
-. Sundays Charlotte Chronicle con-
tanned picture of the new building for
the Y. NJ. G. A, in process of construction
in that city. 1t will cost $15, 200, and i5
the first building of the kind in the State.
80. Two members of the Salvation Army
were married in the Academy of Music in
Charlotte Saturday. An admission fee of
ten cents was charged and a large crowd
witnessed the ceremony. The Chronicle
says ''we are a powerful Sc. of fools, truly"
We learn from the Bulletin of the
n. G. Board of Health that the death rate
for August of Asheville was 1872 in the
1000 inhabitants; Charlotte was 2O7;
Durham was 2O7; Fayetteville 30.7; Viii
mington was 1S.5; Raleigh 21.6.
-. The Rockingham Rocket praises
Ellerbe Springs, ten miles from Rocking
ham 1t says that people who are suffer
ing from hay fever and hay asthma, are
relieved very soon after arriving at the
Springs, and drinking the water.
-. Congressman Tom Johnston ad-
dressed the people of Macon county last
week and the Citizen says that every
reference to Cleveland drought down the
house." And yet some folks say Cleve-
land is not popular with the people!
-. The New Berne Journal says that
it cost S53 to carrya carload of wood pulp
from New Berne to Salem, and adds 1--WE
suppose a carload OF meat or like freight
would be brought from Chicago to New
Berne for less money than that.
-. There Is a family OF women in Dur
ham, the youngest of whom is over six
feet high. They can easily shoulder a sack
of salt The Recorder says that they arc
prepared to assume the progressive after
matrimOny,
.... A man named W. T. Waite married
a respectable young girl of Iillsboro Thurs
day night of last week. The next day a
letter came saying that he had d wife and
children in South Carolina and was "a
bad fellow" He was arrested for higamy,
says the Recorder.
A darkey who had taken out mar
riage license last week, called at the regis
ters office Tuesday, returned the license
and got his money back. His girl had
gone back on him. He stated that he had
spent all the night in tears States
vile Landmark.
"A workingman said to the Colds
boro Argus that "times may be ever SO
| hard, but you can't pat down a man who
| is determined to work, he will make an
| opening for himself. Why, sir, l am max
| ing money and expect to keep at it-times
shall not be too hard for me-"
Col. T. D. Hall has been elected
Chief of Police of Wilmington, the position
having been made vacant by the death OF
| Capt. Brock. He has been Mayor and
afterwards an Alderman of the city and
knows all about the machinery of the city
| government.
| Two colored men had a fight at Mr.
! E. b. Borden's cotton gin near GOldsborO
says the Argus. One struck the other OF
the head with balance, giving him /;
CHASTITY wound and fracturing his skull
The striker is in Jail. The man struck il
in a critical condition.
Mr. D. F.. Stevens writes to tn
Goldsboro Argus that if every family il
the county would plant as much as one
eighth or one fourth of an acre of goo'
land in cane 1t would make all the goo,
molasses they would want, and thereb
save to the county the nice little sum o
about $50, 600 year.
The Wilson Mirror reports mira
Gle. 1t says that colored woman, b.
name, Maggie Simms, II years old, VIII
was born deaf and dumb, spoke for tn
first time Friday. She declares that tn
power is but the long deferred answer G
God to her ceaseless stream of wordles
prayer.